Kansas Water Insights

Sponsored by the Kansas Water Institute

Presented by Robert Sholl

CSIMS

Kansas Department of Agriculture

Description

Cost Share Information Management System


  • Best management practices

    • Land owner, cost, units, time of implementation

    • 12 digit Hydrologic Unit Code level

      • No coordinates

  • 47,958 observations from 2003 to 2025

    • Post-cleaning

Average Spending

Average Spending

Ambient quality data

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Description

  • 56 year longitudinal tracking (1969-2025)

  • 17 different analytes relevant to water quality

  • 58732 observations originally

    • 536813 observations when stacked by analyte

    • After cleaning

  • Precise latitude and longitude for each station

Major analytes

Major analytes

Major analytes

All together

Aligning the data

  • Spatial misalignment

    • Records of time tend to be crisp

    • Space not so much

  • Ongoing problem

    • Methods exist

    • Valid standards don’t

Station delisting

  • Stations across Kansas were identified as “above acceptable levels”

    • Recently there were some delisted

    • These are our focus

What happened around these stations (Watershed, county, and basin level) that possibly contributed to them “getting better”